Study: Parents paying less of students' college tuition, fees
Kaylee Ortega is piecing together ways to pay for college at the University of Colorado this fall: She's waiting tables and running the cash register at a diner, securing scholarships and taking out student loans.
Ortega, a first-generation college student who plans to major in integrative physiology, is entirely responsible for financing her education, acknowledging that her parents' modest-paying salaries earned through cleaning buildings and working with the elderly aren't enough to foot the bill for her tuition and fees.